[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: Disk naming (Was Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]Guestbootloadersupport [1/2])
> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 23:02 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote: > > > http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/instructions.txt has the > > > instructions. I can volunteer to send the information > upstream. It > > > looks like using xd is already going to be a namespace > conflict with > > > the ooollldddd IDE devices, though. > > > What if we go with vbd for the device names? Then the > questions are > > > > Is the fact that it's 3 chars rather than 2 going to cause problems? > > vda1 ? > > Nah, there's plenty that are longer. Compaq SmartArray stuff > is /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 :) Let's go with 'xvd' as this is what's used in the code already, e.g. (from blkfront.c): static struct xlbd_type_info xlbd_vbd_type = { .partn_shift = 4, .partn_per_major = 16, .devname = "xvd", .diskname = "xvd", }; > I'll send off the request to lanana later this evening Thanks, Ian _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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